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The author of this post is Johan Tufte-Kristensen who is an Associate Professor of Private and Procedural Law at the University of Copenhagen. In a decision of 8 May 2026, the Danish Supreme Court considered whether a child who had been wrongfully retained by his mother in Denmark should have been returned to the United […]

On 8 October 2026, the Colégio da Trindade of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra will host the I Meeting of Private International Law Professors, entitled Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Private International Law – A Reading from Portugal. As already noted on this blog in connection with the call for […]

The European Association of Private International Law has established a Working Group to prepare a position paper on draft UNIDROIT-ICC Principles and Model Clauses for International Investment Contracts. Olaf Meyer agreed to serve as chair. The goal of the Working Group is to respond to the private international law aspects of the project. The UNIDROIT/ICC […]

In April this year, the Oxford University Press published The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law, edited by Douglas A Kysar and Ernest Lim. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the intersection between climate change and private law in general, including private international law (PIL), bringing together contributions from leading […]

The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the programme of the summer course of Private International Law of 2027. The course will be opened by Pierre Mayer (Emeritus Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) with the inaugural lecture entitled Private International Law and Normative Competence of States. The general course, titled International […]

The second issue of the RabelsZ (The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law) for 2026 has been published. The RabelsZ has announced an overhaul of its governance structure and editorial processes in this issue. Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels, and Anne Röthel will be joined by Jens Kleinschmidt of the University of Trier and […]

The author of this post is  Javier Carrascosa González who is a Professor of Private International Law at the University of Murcia. Dr. Carmen María Noriega Linares has published a book on The Free Cross-Border Circulation of Arbitral Awards and International Public Policy (“Libre circulación transfronteriza del laudo arbitral y orden público internacional“) with Editorial Colex […]

The European Commission (EC) has just closed the procedure in which it assessed complaints concerning incompatibility of French compensatory levy of Article 913(3) French Civil Code with the Succession Regulation. French compensatory levy mechanism In 2021, the French Civil Code was amended by adding the third paragraph to its Article 913. This provision reads as […]

The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2027 will be held from 16 August to 3 September 2027. The 2027 edition of the Centre will focus on International Law on Mineral Exploration and Mining. The Directors of Research will be Diana Correa (Externado University of Colombia) and Arnaud de Nanteuil (Paris-Est Créteil University). […]

On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court released three judgments of relevance for private international law, thereby providing a lot of interesting material to read over the summer. Collectively, the three judgments concern state immunity, jurisdiction and the effects of foreign judgments. This post briefly outlines the facts, issues and decisions in these three […]

The legal confrontation between the European Union and the Russian Federation over the effects of restrictive measures continues to intensify. In recent months, the interaction between sanctions law, private international law and national countermeasures has become increasingly complex, as both sides have adopted instruments aimed at protecting the effectiveness of their respective legal frameworks. On […]

This post was contributed by Antonio Mariconda, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. In cross-border legal relationships, it is not uncommon that individuals’ expectations about the legal treatment of their situations are not matched by reality. This has to do with the fact that parties to cross-border situations are […]

The latest issue of the French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely read here. Concentration of Cross-Border Disputes (Part 1) This new issue features the first part of a special dossier on the concentration of cross-border disputes edited […]

This post was contributed by Vytautas Vaicekauskas who is a PhD candidate at Vilnius University. On 16 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered a judgment in case No C-196/24 (“Aucrinde”) for the first time concerning the Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 on cross-border taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters […]

This post was contributed by Dr. Vincent Richard, who is a practising lawyer in Luxembourg. As announced by Marta Requejo on this blog, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case Aucrinde (C-196/24) on 16 July 2026. This is the first case on the recast of the Evidence Regulation (Reg. 2020/1783) and, more […]

This post was contributed by Pauline Ernste & Jeroen van Hezewijk, who are respectively professor of civil law, in particular civil procedural law, and doctoral researcher at the Radboud Business Law Institute (OO&R) of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The post is based on a more in-depth analysis published (in Dutch) here. On […]

On 9 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C‑768/24 Hortis GRC SA v JA, France Travail Île-de-France ECLI:EU:C:2026:566. The judgment concerns the interpretation of Article 6 of the Rome Convention, the predecessor of Article 8 of the Rome I Regulation. More specifically, it concerns the relationship […]

The latest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 75, Issue 2) features one article of relevance to private international law. Marcus Teo, Strong Cause, 285 – 313 Common law courts will enforce jurisdiction agreements unless they find ‘strong cause’ or ‘strong reasons’ not to. This article argues that the strong cause test is the […]

The second issue of 2026 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht contains the following articles which may be of interest to the readers of the EAPIL blog: Burkhard Hess, Justizpräsenz im Internet: ein neues Forschungsfeld der Prozessrechtsvergleichung The editorial examines the digitalisation of court communication across different jurisdictions, identifying it as an emerging field […]

On 15 July 2026, the European Commission decided to open infringement proceedings against 14 Member States for failing to communicate the complete transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/1069 on the protection of persons engaging in public participation against manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings (the ‘Anti-SLAPP Directive’). Letters of formal notice have been addressed to […]